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Maybelline Fit Me foundation - review & wear test

July 05, 2017

Today I have a long awaited review on Maybelline Fit Me foundation. I know you waited for what now seems like forever, but here on BW blog we do it right - I was testing it out for a few months and now I can tell you if I like it or not, what exactly I do or don't like and some other things I wouldn't be able to know if I only used it once or twice. You know what I mean - you just can't use a product once and write a review. This is the "first impression" then, not a review.

But, this won't only be a review, but also a "wear test". I will wear it for hours, tell you how does it wear and take photos to show you. So lets get started...

Maybelline says that this foundation is for combination to oily skin, that mattifies and refiner pores, matches skin tone and texture and has a natural, seamless finish. Maybe you will wonder why did I buy it if I have dry to combination skin. Well, now that is summer, if I spend some time outside, my forehead and my nose gets a bit oily, so I wanted to test it out.

It claims it it oil free and gives you natural matte finish. But, this is a silicone based foundation, so it can clog your pores, even though it says "non - comedogenic. Keep that in mind. You can also read the ingredients here...

I like this tube packaging, the opening is small enough to push just the right amount of the product out, but it is very liquidy. As soon as you swatch it on your hand, you can see it is very thin, spreads out weirdly on the skin and separates. But, when you smudge it a bit, it is not that noticable.

And yes, the shade seems too light for me, but my hands are much darker than my face and chest now (I usually don't tan my face like... ever).

Now when we talked about that technical stuff, lets get on to applying it and the wear test.

First of all, this is what my skin looks like without any makeup. I took close ups too and didn't photoshop anything, so you can see exactly in what condition it is. You can click on the photo and then zoom some more if you want to see all of my pores :).

That morning, washed my face with L'oreal Men
Expert Black Charcoal wash and applied Kiehl's Ultra facial cream
(I don't skip cleansing and moisturizing my skin in the morning and in the evening).

As far as the application goes, I will apply the foundation as I apply every other foundation - first I go in with the brush (I used Morphe M439 - short dense brush that gives you fuller coverage), and then I go over with damp beauty sponge in tapping motion, to help blend everything even more and to soak up extra product if there is any (Real Techniques mini sponge).

As I like to test out the claims that the product is matte, but also the long wearing claims, on the left side of my face I will use mattifying primer - Catrice Prime and Fine Smoothing refiner primer. I like it and I've been using it for a long time, it does mattify the skin and prolongs the wear time.

On the right side of my face I will use illuminating primer - Catrice Beautifying primer. It is a good primer, but I don't use it with matte foundations because the illuminating properties can't be seen underneath the matte foundation. But, I will make an exception here because I'm curious to see how the foundation will preform over different types of primers.

As you can see, it didn't cover up most of the imperfection, which means it doesn't have full coverage as they say. I would say it is sheer to medium coverage, if you build it up. But, here is where the problems begin. It grabs on te dry patches I didn't even knew I had. It doesn't apply evenly, which you can see in the area around the nose. Just like I said while swatching it on the hand - it sits on the skin in a weird way (even though I pushed it into the skin with a sponge).

Now for the different primers, on the side that I had mattifying primer on, pores do look more filled in, but that is what the primer did, not the foundation.

I finished my makeup at 4:15pm. I used the products that are my favorites and that I know how they perform. So we are only testing the foundation and combining it with well known product that won't mess up with the foundation wear during the day.

At the end, it actually looked decent. The foundation sinked into the skin a bit and fused with all the other products. Only the dry patches on my chin still look bad.

Not only do I look like someone poured oil all over my face, the foundation ate the blush, the bronzer, maybe even the highlighter - I can't tell because I am shiny all over. It grabbed on the skin around my nose... It dissapeared from the chin and the nose, it just left the oily residue. And it is not that pretty dewy kind of look, this is a disaster.

There is no difference in primers either, both sides are shiny the same way.

And let me be clear, my skin never gets this oily, I didn't go outside, stayed in the house, that day wasn't so hot and humid either. I didn't work out, do squats or run... But I do look like I took a swim in pure vegetable oil.

I have never, ever tried a foundation that made my skin this oil in just 3 hours! 3 hours! On my combination dry skin. I can't even imagine what it would do to my oily skin girls out there.

I won't even tell you how much does it cost or where you can buy it - just don't.

It claimed to do so many things and it was completly opposite from all of that. And I wanted to love it, I kept giving it a chance for months, I listened all the hype from out and foreing infuencers and bloggers... But no. Just no.